astragalus
Americannoun
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Origin of astragalus
From New Latin, dating back to 1535–45; see origin at astragal
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According to testimony from Rishe Khalili, firefighters’ use of bulldozers to put a contingency line around that fire ended up harming astragalus.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 27, 2025
If you lived in China, you’d probably add astragalus root to the broth.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 4, 2019
The product’s ingredients were mysterious: lion’s mane, shilajit, astragalus, rhodiola, stevia, maca.
From New York Times • May 25, 2017
For fifty bucks, I bought a small jar of Brain Dust, which contains the herb astragalus and an Ayurvedic rock extrusion called shilajit.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 22, 2016
Also salvaged was an astragalus, which was a knucklebone of a sheep or a goat used like a die in a game called “knucklebone.”
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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